语法纠错公司获1.1亿美元投资
语法不好,担心出现错误?公文写作需要修改润色?别担心,智能语法纠错软件可以帮到你。据报道,初创公司Grammarly近日获得大笔风投,该公司开发的软件可以标出用户文章中使用不恰当的词句,并给出修改建议,还可以告诉用户为什么会出错。此外,还可以帮助用户选用恰当的语气和词汇。 There's money to be made from other people's mistakes: $110m (£85m) of it, to be precise. That's the amount raised in a funding round by Grammarly, a firm that boasts of having what it calls "the world's most accurate online grammar checker". It has persuaded venture capital firms including General Catalyst, IVP and Spark Capital to support its platform. The eight-year-old firm, based in San Francisco, offers "mistake-free writing every time" to 6.9 million users. The start-up was founded in 2009 by Alex Shevchenko and Max Lytvyn. Its software uses spell-checking, proof-reading and plagiarism detection tools, scanning text for the correct use of more than 250 advanced grammar rules. But not everyone sees the need for Grammarly. One online reaction posted to the announcement of the firm's venture round was: "I rather learn to write without mistakes than let a program correct it" (perhaps inadvertently proving its usefulness). On the other hand, Grammarly's efforts provide no guarantee that your prose will be a joy to read. Its own website contains the sentence: "Enhance your sentences with Grammarly's context-optimized word choice suggestions to instantly improve the readability of your document." Clearly split infinitives are safe from the software's forensic gaze. |